Quote by Kofi Annan
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a w

There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole – women and men alike – than the one which involves women as central players. – Kofi Annan

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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. – Kofi Annan

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Equality
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Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. – Kofi Annan

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Society
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. – Kofi Annan

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History
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. Its not politically viable its not morally right its just not going to happen. – Michael Bloomberg

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Society

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. – Nelson Mandela

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On the surface we all act like we all love each other and were free and easy, and actually were far more moralistic than any other society Ive ever lived in. – Kathy Acker

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What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and youre going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people. – Elizabeth Olsen

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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. – Oscar Wilde

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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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